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Originally Posted by Harmon
I find myself rereading fiction, with sometimes interesting results - Dashiell Hammett does not stand up, but Raymond Chandler does, for instance.
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Harmon, I have read and enjoyed a great deal of Hammett's early (1920's) work, up to his first novel
Red Harvest, since the first of this year. When I read all of his that was available 35 years ago, I found I didn't have a particularly high opinion of his post-Maltese Falcon works.
Did you find like I did that he ran out of gas, or do you no longer like his early works as well?